The area grew around a mineral spring discovered by Henry Frye in the 1760s, so that by 1787 the town of Watson had been established.

[2] Also in 1850, the state of Virginia built Greek Revival bath pavilions and the President's House.

A period of decline followed the Mountain House fire, but rebuilding began in the 1930s under the ownership of Louis Austin.

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